Richard Spencer is one of the Daily Telegraph's Middle East correspondents. Married with three children, he was previously news editor, and then China correspondent for six years. He is based in Cairo.

Red-faced Ken

Ken's finally left Beijing and as I write is on his way to Shanghai, but not before a final blast over the Tiananmen Square Massacre issue.

Asked for justification (rather than a repeat) of his views, Ken turned on the reporter who asked the question, who happened to be from Sky News.

"Are you from Sky?" he asked, and then, losing his temper, launched into a broadside against Rupert Murdoch, Sky's part-owner. Murdoch, he said, had entered into an agreement with the Chinese to censor his own news outlets, so that there was no point into talking to Sky, since he would be censored.

When they were able to report his comments, he would give them an answer. With that, he stalked off, red in the face, ignoring a repeat of the question by the BBC, which as far as we know is not owned by Rupert Murdoch.

It's nonsense to say that Sky allows itself to be censored by the Chinese, as far as I know, and since the Sky man was detained a few weeks ago by Chinese police for ten hours he probably knows more about the reality of China than Ken does.

Moreover, Ken is out of date with his knowledge of Murdoch's dealings with the Chinese. It's true that Murdoch's record in this area is not good: he kicked the BBC off the Star satellite distribution system so that it could be beamed into a few towns in Guangdong in the 90s, for example, and he stopped Harper Collins, which he owns, from publishing Chris Patten's memoirs about his time in Hong Kong.

But now Murdoch is fed up. Last autumn he said he had hit a brick wall in his attempts to open up the Chinese media. He resigned from Netcom, the telecommunications firm run by the son of the last president, Jiang Zemin.

The government blocked his attempts to go into business with a provincial satellite television company, and has banned further joint ventures between domestic media and foreign companies including his own. On the other hand, a glimpse at one of my favourite blogs about China – danwei.org, I've mentioned it before – reveals the unlikeliest thing.

The English-language China Central Television website has been revamped with help from Fox News, the slighly manic, populist and right-wing, Murdoch-owned American television station. A stranger, spookier tie-up could not be imagined – a gift for those who believe the world is run by a sinister conspiracy comprising international capitalism and the Chinese Communist Party.

You may judge yourself from the exciting picture on the CCTV website page announcing the revamp whether you think in this case, as the saying goes, the world has changed China or China has changed Fox.

Danwei will be one of the websites that will feature on my "blogroll" of honour when the Telegraph's blogs are revamped in the near future. It's a bit nerdy, designed by people working in media and advertising in Beijing mainly for, er, people working in media and advertising in Beijing. But it's great that there is someone else to watch Chinese TV for me, so I don't have to.